Alabama

Anthony, left, and Terry Jackson loved to serve others through the food pantry ministry at West Huntsville United Methodist Church, where they were fatally attacked on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Huntsville investigators have named Richard Burgin Jr., 50, as the alleged killer. Burgin was arrested Thursday. (Contributed by West Huntsville United Methodist Church)

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The man believed to be behind last year's double slaying of two brothers inside a Huntsville church's food pantry is behind bars in the Madison County jail.

Richard Burgin Jr. (Madison County jail)

The Huntsville Police Department has booked Richard Burgin Jr., 50, with capital murder in the deaths of Anthony Jackson, 76, and Terry Jackson, 69. Burgin, who was already in custody at Draper Correctional Facility in Elmore on unrelated charges, was brought to Huntsville today to face the new charges.

The elderly brothers were found dead May 21, 2013, inside the food pantry at West Huntsville United Methodist Church, where they volunteered to clean up and help distribute food. The brothers, who had little themselves, volunteered each week as a way of returning the help they sometimes received from the church.

The brothers lived together because Terry Jackson cared for his older brother, who was disabled by cerebral palsy.

A news release from the Huntsville Police Department said that, in the year since the slayings, detectives received information that pointed to Burgin as a suspect.

"As a result of the intensive and continuing investigative efforts of the department's Major Crimes Unit, this information led to the discovery of further evidence which confirmed Richard Burgin is responsible for the murders of the Jackson brothers," the news release stated.

A warrant was obtained Tuesday and Madison County sheriff's deputies went to Elmore to pick up Burgin, who, according to court records, has a history of robbery arrests. His most recent arrest, which occurred last June, was for allegedly stealing more than $1,000 from Belk.

Burgin also had a prior 1997 arrest for first-degree robbery, in which he robbed a victim of jewelry at knifepoint. Court records indicate he pleaded guilty to that crime.

It was not immediately clear which charge he was in prison for at the time of his arrest in the Jackson brothers' deaths.